Competitions · Belgium

Seraing Open 2019

Seraing · 26 October 2019 · 11 events · 90 competitors · 147 personal bests

Mats Valk won five of the eleven events (3×3, 2×2, 4×4) and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Anthony Lafourcade by 0.06 seconds. 90 competitors produced 147 personal bests, 51 of which still stand today, and 15 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Abdelhak Kaddour set the 7×7 single national record: 2:04.41.

Five wins

Mats Valk — 3×3, 2×2, 4×4, 5×5, 3×3 one-handed

0.06s

closest final — Pyraminx, Anthony Lafourcade over Robin Verstraten

147

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Mats Valk	6.22	8.87
2×2	Mats Valk	1.91	2.64
4×4	Mats Valk	24.81	29.79
5×5	Mats Valk	43.06	51.12
6×6	Abdelhak Kaddour	1:36.97	1:43.88
7×7	Abdelhak Kaddour	2:04.41	2:16.48
3×3 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	22.14	24.59
3×3 one-handed	Mats Valk	11.83	12.93
Megaminx	Victor Wijsman	42.40	47.56
Pyraminx	Anthony Lafourcade	2.83	3.20
Skewb	Anthony Lafourcade	2.90	3.16

The PB harvest

147 set · 51 still standing

Jonathan Mauroy — 3×3 single 7.56: into the top 2.1% of the event's history.
Chloé Demuynck — 3×3 single 8.19: into the top 3.1% of the event's history.
Márton Vancsa — Megaminx single 45.39: into the top 3.2% of the event's history.
Sewan Boudrai — 2×2 single 2.15: into the top 5.8% of the event's history.
Ton Dennenbroek — 2×2 single 2.15: into the top 5.8% of the event's history.
Jonas Rongé — 3×3 one-handed single 13.93: into the top 6.0% of the event's history.
Maxim Onushkin — 3×3 single 9.84: into the top 7.0% of the event's history.
Yanis Faraz Ashiq — 3×3 single 10.15: into the top 7.9% of the event's history.

First-timers

15 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 27,871 people who made their debut in 2019. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

5 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

90 competitors · 712 results · 11 events.

Everyone who competed

90 competitors

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.